Chefmos 1, 30", Red Accessory Pack

Awesome!!! I have looked at all the different brands and sizes for a while now and decided on this one mainly for the price and meat probe. All I can say is I picked a winner. I have used it three times the first week and love it. I did chicken legs and country style ribs first, best I ever smoked, got the ribs a little dry but that was my bad. Small pork butt turned out great. Just got finished with two large pork butts (21 pounds total) and I have never seen pork so tender, literally had problems picking it up to bring it in. I will have to say though, its a pretty good job cleaning it up but worth it. Don't have any illusions that it will ever be shiny and new looking again but it is a smoker, who really cares what it looks like on the inside as long as its clean. I am planning on doing a turkey for thanksgiving, hope it goes well. This thing takes all the work out of smoking, just add a few chips every hour or so and sit back and watch the remote display to see the meat temp. It don't get no easier than that. My wife even used it to cook the small butt and it turned out super!

We bought the smoker at the end of October 2015. We used it every Saturday, so only once per week and it was cleaned and covered the whole time it was not in use. The smoker got up to temperature and was very easy to use. Taste was not the same as wood or charcoal, but ease of use and almost foolproof temp control made up for it. Then around December 2015 the meat thermometer stopped working. I was annoyed, but by then I was able to time the meat well enough that it was not that important. At the start of March 2016 (5 months from purchase) the whole electrical control system went. The smoker is now unusable. Came back to Amazon to get order receipt and look at the warranty and see that they only provide a 90 day warranty. Not impressive for the money.

Wow, Masterbuilt really needs to improve their quality control. I just got this smoker and had issues assembling it due to some parts not being properly aligned. One of the wheels in particular just simply would not align up properly to allow all the screws to be put in, I tried to bend it to the proper shape but the metal is far too think for me to manage without having a vise. Also, the lower right corner was damaged, even though it's well packed with styrofoam and an additional plastic protector on the corners... so was clearly damaged that way BEFORE packing. Finally the remote that came with it was completely non-functional. This does not bode well for the quality of their products. I did get replacements for the wheel and the remote but I have not had the best results with this smoker, the container for the wood chips is quite small, and very easy to get jammed, and you have to really babysit it to keep filling it with more wood to make sure it keeps smoking. I had a much cheaper smoker, where you just had a tray you put in the bottom of the smoker, so easy to fill and almost never ran out of smoke like this one constantly does. I find myself using my smoker less and less due to how frustrating it is to get good smoke and being able to just set it and let it smoke for several hours and come back to a beautiful piece of smoked meat.

We purchased this smoker about 6 months ago to replace our falling apart charcoal smoker. We are so glad we did! It is so much easier to just push a button than to mess with charcoal all day. We mainly got it to smoke our homemade bacon, but after we discovered how easy it is to use we have started smoking so much more. We even did our Christmas prime rib in the smoker and it was unbelievable! Having the remote makes it easy to monitor from inside the house and the built in probe thermometer makes it easy to monitor the temperature of our food. It heats up very quickly (in the summer in AZ it only takes about 10 minutes to get up to 250).I wish the hole for adding wood chips was a bit bigger. Some of the chips we buy are chopped a little too big to go in and we have to spend time chopping them up. I also wish there was the ability for an alarm or auto-shutoff based on the temperature of the meat. It makes you set a cooking time, but most of the time you are smoking to a specific temperature and not a specific time.We purchased the optional legs with wheels. It is helpful to have it sitting up higher and so much easier to move when needed.

I spent quite a bit of time researching various smokers before purchasing this one. There are a few reviews that it didn't work well, but most liked it. We use this almost every weekend to smoke something. Our friends are totally envious.Pluses: Remote control, internal thermometer, many racks, electronic set temperature, wheels to move it around, tube to put more wood in.We have the remote control and that is awesome - you can set and check the unit temperature, the internal thermometer to check the meat, and time it's cooked so far. I really like that you can put in more wood without having to open the door.Minuses: clean up, window hard to cleanWhile having a window seems neat, it really isn't worthwhile becuase it's hard to clean and see inside. The lower tray (where the water tray is) is hard to remove and clean. The very bottom tray is easy to remove and clean though.Master built has a lot of additional items you can get that will help - like a mesh tray for jerky/fish, beer can chicken holder, sausage holder, rib holder, etc. We have gotten most of these and they work well.Masterbuilt also has a website with recipes and you can find recipes on other sites. I'm still learning what works and what doesn't - it's a lot of fun. The meats seem to take a lot longer than the recipes to cook but in the end, it's delicious.